A study of focus and accent in Singapore Malay

The syntactic focus-marking, like clefting, in Malay is limited to certain focus contexts. Hence, this motivates the belief that Malay adopts other strategies of focus-marking. Cross-linguistic research has provided ample evidence of intonation used as a focus-marking strategy, including Indonesian....

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Main Author: Diyana Hamzah
Other Authors: James Sneed German
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50856
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English